To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
I always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself. — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective… — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music… — Nas Copy Share Image
People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum. — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained. — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
“People going to see the Mona Lisa, not to look at it, but because it's the Mona Lisa” — Paul Pope Copy Share Image
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Britney's a very beautiful human being. After I worked with her, I realized that there was a reason why she was the… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
“I asked why this had impressed him so much, and he said, “You see, those stubborn, long-obscured images are like the layers… — B.E. Scully Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Salvador Dalí’s aberrations are partly explicable. Perhaps they are a way of assuring himself that he is not commonplace. The two qualities… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side,… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“Jubal shrugged. "Abstract design is all right-for wall paper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image